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We returned two weeks ago to America from the Middle East where we live. We had a month of traveling throughout the US and a couple of places overseas. Have you noticed the Middle East is a mess? The other day an opposition politician was killed in Tunisia. The Islamist and the Muslim Brotherhood are considering a partnership […]
Almost anyone who has lived overseas in the two-thirds world will have stories on at least three subjects. These will include misadventures in regard to airplanes flown, toilets used (more later about this one), and food eaten. There is an old overseas worker’s rhyme which goes something like, “Where He leads me I will follow. […]
He weighed 300 pounds and most of that was heart. Hailing from rural North Carolina, he had taken two months of his vacation time to serve with us in Mogadishu. This was the time before the United Nations entered Somalia; times where we were more free to move around the city in the countryside with […]
We love nurses and all types of medical people. When needed the most throughout the Horn of Africa, especially Somalia, believers who are medically trained had come out of the woodwork to give some of the most sacrificial service to God imaginable on the planet. In horrific places they had helped us reduce malnutrition rates […]
During the years of the USSR there was a charismatic movement in a particular country within the State Church called the “Army of God.” It was quite a renewal movement, returning a massive number of people back to God and the Bible, away from hollow religious ritual. Sadly, as is true in many persecution environments, […]
We had planned to go and check on the opening of a hand-dug water well. We had not planned on one of our team members buying a young girl as a wife along the way. During the famine and civil war in Somalia one of our most appreciated projects was assisting in the digging of […]